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Following a lengthy process involving a series of demonstrations from the DMS vendors, interviews with existing Partners and IT Directors from other law firms and our own research on the use of cloud solutions versus keeping and maintaining a DMS on or even hosted off-site, it was clear to us that pursuing the cloud strategy – a single instance cloud platform in particular, was the way forward.
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Burt Brill & Cardens Limited is the latest law firm to sign up to Quill’s Interactive legal accounting software. With a rigid timeframe for implementation, dictated by the end-of-contract date for its legacy legal accounts system, the practice went live in April 2019.
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With Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT now mandatory for businesses with an annual taxable turnover of £85,000, Russell & Co Solicitors, a long-established law firm based in Great Malvern, is ready to process its next VAT submission according to HMRC’s MTD scheme thanks to its outsourced cashiering and software provider, Quill.
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With a client-centric commitment to excellence in mind, Saul Ewing LLP merged with Arnstein & Lehr LLP in September of 2017, providing their clients with expanded capabilities and greater depth in key practice areas.
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Parkview Solicitors is the employer to an expanding team split across its two sites in the North of England. The practice needed a user-friendly and centralised system designed to improve file organisation for its 16 members of staff and help them to manage caseloads and accounts easily and effectively through an on-premise platform.
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Keeping a handle on time-recording data at law firms is a bewildering task, and not a job for the faint of heart. Stephen Allen, global head of legal operations and innovation lead at Hogan Lovells, explains how Clocktimizer helps the firm leverage and enhance that data
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Peter Dombkins and Andrew Babbage at Gilbert + Tobin describe how they created a more powerful business intelligence proposition using the 3E Data Insights solution from Thomson Reuters, supported by Pinnacle
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With a flourishing conveyancing department and administration team at full capacity, long-standing Quill client, Robert Simmons Solicitors, utilises the Quill Type outsourced typing service for overflow support.
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When MPP Solicitors first became a Quill client, for legal accounts software only initially, the practice employed its own cashier. Responsible mainly for managing its accounts on Quill’s software, another facet of its cashier’s role was processing the firm’s payroll. The internal structure changed when its cashier retired, as explained by Allan Hunt.
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To comply with the GDPR’s tough new data requirements, Seddon’s knew it must find a solution to two major security issues
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In 2016 ByrneWallace became the first large firm in Ireland to have ISO 27001 certification. Firms with ISO 27001 certification must have a totally comprehensive system of security measures that extend beyond just IT.
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By consolidating its technology vendors, ByrneWallace was able to streamline the user experience and make major improvements to solutions depended upon by staff every single day. ByrneWallace improved its redaction workflows, document comparison speed and accuracy, and data protection, so it is more easily able to meet the requirements for ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance.
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When, in early 2019, news broke that Paul Manafort’s lawyers had not properly redacted sensitive information from court filings – revealing that he had conceded discussing a Ukraine peace plan – the derision was widespread. They were seen as typical of anyone connected to the current administration: so incompetent they couldn’t even black out a few words in a document.
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Included in all our Qworks comprehensive managed IT services contracts is a technology refresh after four years. Although contracts are typically much longer, our experience determines that this is the optimum time to change all the equipment and exploit newer technologies.
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Sharon Petford, partner at Donn & Co, says scanning solution Post Partner, powered by Brother, has saved the firm around 50% of time spent scanning documents for case work.
